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他在我们的海域大肆掠夺，蹂躏我们沿海地区，焚烧我们的城镇，残害我们人民的生命。

He

is

at

this

time

transporting

large

armies

of

foreign

mercenaries

to

compleat

the

works

of

death,

desolation

and

tyranny,

already

begun

with

circumstances

of

Cruelty

&

perfidy

scarcely

paralleled

in

the

most

barbarous

ages,

and

totally

unworthy

the

Head

of

a

civilized

nation.

他此时正在运送大批外国佣兵来完成屠杀、破坏和肆虐的老勾当，这种勾当早就开始，其残酷卑劣甚至在最野蛮的时代都难以找到先例。他完全不配作为一个文明国家的元首。

He

has

constrained

our

fellow

Citizens

taken

Captive

on

the

high

Seas

to

bear

Arms

against

their

Country,

to

become

the

executioners

of

their

friends

and

Brethren,

or

to

fall

themselves

by

their

Hands.

他在公海上俘虏我们的同胞，强迫他们拿起武器来反对自己的国家，成为残杀自己亲人和朋友的刽子手，或是死于自己的亲人和朋友的手下。

He

has

excited

domestic

insurrections

amongst

us,

and

has

endeavoured

to

bring

o

n

the

inhabitants

of

our

frontiers,

the

merciless

Indian

Savages,

whose

known

rule

of

warfare,

is

an

undistinguished

destruction

of

all

ages,

es

and

conditions.

他在我们中间煽动内乱，并且竭力挑唆那些残酷无情、没有开化的印第安人来杀掠我们边疆的居民;而众所周知，印第安人的作战律令是不分男女老幼，一律格杀勿论的。

In

every

stage

of

these

Oppressions

We

have

Petitioned

for

Redress

in

the

most

humble

terms:

Our

repeated

Petitions

have

been

answered

only

by

repeated

injury.

A

Prince,

whose

character

is

thus

marked

by

every

act

which

may

define

a

Tyrant,

is

unfit

to

be

the

ruler

of

a

free

people.

在这些压迫的每一阶段中，我们都是用最谦卑的言辞请愿改善;但屡次请求所得到的答复是屡次遭受损害。一个君主，当他的品格已打上了暴君行为的烙印时，是不配作自由人民的统治者的。

Nor

have

We

been

wanting

in

attention

to

our

British

brethren.

We

have

warned

them

from

time

to

time

of

attempts

by

their

legislature

to

extend

an

unwarrantable

jurisdiction

over

us.

We

have

reminded

them

of

the

circumstances

of

our

emigration

and

settlement

here.

We

have

appealed

to

their

native

justice

and

magnanimity,

and

we

have

conjured

them

by

the

ties

of

our

common

kindred

to

disavow

these

usurpation,

which

would

inevitably

interrupt

our

connections

and

correspondence.

They

too

have

been

deaf

to

the

voice

of

justice

and

of

consanguinity.

We

must,

therefore,

acquiesce

in

the

necessity,

which

denounces

our

Separation,

and

hold

them,

as

we

hold

the

rest

of

mankind,

Enemies

in

War,

in

Peace

Friends.

我们不是没有注意我们英国的弟兄。我们时常提醒他们，他们的立法机关企图把无理的管辖权横加到我们的头上。我们也曾把我们移民出这里和在这里定居的情形告诉他们。我们曾经向他们天生的正义感和雅量呼吁，我们恳求他们念在同种同宗的份上，弃绝这些掠夺行为，以免影响彼此的关系和往来。但是他们却对于这种正义和血缘的呼声一直充耳不闻。因此，我们实在不得不宣布和他们脱离，并且以对待世界上其它民族一样的态度对待他们:战即为敌;和则为友。